Kim Okura – Empowerment through art, silent art performance
Scheduled date*:
Sat April 27, 2024
*if weather ist okey
Announcement – Vienna, spring 2024: Wing-lifting memories in hand format or “Pocket size empowerment at Okuras Silent Art Performance WIENSPRING24, a Happinent in Vienna
Key data:
Silent art performance
When: Date to be announced 1.2 days before the performance via Okura’s Instagram and Facebook profiles (stories and posts), end of March or beginning of April (weather dependent)
Hashtag: #wienspring
Who: Austrian artist Kim Okura
What happens during this performance: Okura, dressed as a spring meadow with an allotment plot (headgear), hands out 1,111 wing-lifting memories to people she meets on this spring foot march.
Start approx. 1 p.m.
Starting and ending point is the Wiedner Werkstätte,
at level of Wiedner Hauptstraße 152, 1050 Vienna
Performance-Tour 2024:
Wiedner Hauptstraße
Karlsplatz
Kärntner Straße
Stock-im-Eisen-Platz
Stephansplatz
Return route:
Graben
Seiler- oder Spiegelgasse
Albertina
Opernring
Kärntner Straße
Karlsplatz
Wiedner Hauptstraße
Pocket-sized Empowerment
The “wing-lifting memories” are packed in small white letters (Happy Place Portals) and are born on tour during the performance process, according to Okura’s concept.
Process chronology:
– The recipient sees the “spring meadow” (i.e. the artist in the spring meadow costume)
– Recipient receives a letter from her (small white hand-folded letter, sealed with a green dot sticker)
– Recipient opens the letter and reads the message it contains.
– This message, written in a benevolent attitude, is uplifting and, together with the visual impressions of this experience, develops into a wing-lifting memory, Okura describes the intention of this art performance.
– The received letter with the personal text therefore functions as a portal to a very personal mental “happy place”.
Wing-lifting memories
The letters, which Okura calls “Metta Letters”, and the messages they contain are produced during a metta meditation she has developed.
This “empowerment concept” in the form of a silent art performance has already been very well received in the past. Due to the enormous response, the artist decided to set off on the march through Vienna again this year.
Additional info
Metta letters, painted in physical form or as a concept, appear repeatedly in Okura’s works.
The last “Wienspring” Silent Art Performance took place on April 22, 2023, the last “Seasonsfreude” Silent Art Performance on December 24, 2023.
The forms of Okuräen that can also be discovered in this year’s Metta Letters are understood as portals and symbols of wing-lifting memories to mental happy places.
The Okuräe, a portmanteau word from Okuras Freudentrophäe, first appeared as a surface-filling concept in the large-format, extensive cycle of Joytrophies: Grossw(B)ildhäute, Hasenhäute und Versuchskaninchen.
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